Ok, "let it go" is a statement that's thrown around this forum quite often, AND WITH GOOD REASON. I've learned fuckloads from 'Grinus and Kidd!!, as well as others around here like Scarf, Star, Altair, Prodigy (now Kai? - can't keep up with you guys these days
), but NOTHING has made a bigger & more positive difference to my life, the way I interact with others (and the way they interact with me), than 'letting go', and i've only just begun......
Now, there is a LOT of information on this forum re: letting go, releasing, and befriending your demons, and the standard MO around here is to help yourself - read the shit, and do the fucking work, and with good reason. But there's a lot of good info on this topic scattered around in the most unlikely threads, and there is a LOT of shit on here to read.
I believe anyone who's serious about their own self-development should read just about EVERYTHING on this forum, but letting go is so crucial that I thought it would be a good idea to have as much info on it in one place, so that newcomers who are interested in this can get started WITH GUSTO.
'Grinus & Kidd!!, if you feel that this post is spoon-feeding, feel free to delete it. However, I don't think it is - anyone 'letting go' will have to do all the heavy lifting anyway......
So I started this thread to compile what discussions were of most value to me on this topic. Bear in mind this is only regarding MY WAY of doing it, so if anyone has other (equally effective, and most importantly SINCERE, HONEST and THOROUGH) ways of doing this, feel free to add. And if anyone remembers even more illuminating threads than what i've posted here, go for it.
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Basically, when I 'let go' of something that triggers me, I put aside 30 mins to an hour at home, and sit down on my couch. No special posture like lotus or whatever, I just make sure that my back, neck, and head are upright so I don't fall asleep. Then I close my eyes, try to feel the inside of my body, and once i'm comfortable with that, I remember the event that triggered me, and follow the sensations within my body. I don't take charge of them, tell them what to do, nothing like that -
while i'm letting go, they're the fucking boss. I just let them do what they want, and I FOLLOW them while they rise & fall, change shape, move around my body, etc. I continue doing this as long as they're there, or until the 30 mins or hour is up. Sometimes this can be very painful (both physically & emotionally), so it takes courage.
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So anyways, the threads; Unfortunately, there may be even better info in threads that I didn't bookmark for whatever reason. And i'm kinda pressed for time these days and didn't get to be as thorough as i'd like on this post. Also, i've kinda focused on Flow's posts, since he really elaborates quite well on the topic. But anyone who doesn't read the full thread and therefore gets an incomplete picture only has themselves to blame:
First, an admonition from Kidd!! from
http://www.naturalfreedom.info/viewtopi ... 824#p16714 :
If you poke about a bit more, you will see that nowhere do I purport that it is easy. Quite effective, yes...but easy? Never.
You'll have a lot of pride swallowing and personal demon meeting and greeting to do before you can even touch bases with your own psyche on a meaningful level. The sooner you get started, the sooner you finish.
http://www.naturalfreedom.info/viewtopi ... 213#p31531
A wonderful and succinct description of letting go/releasing by 'Grinus & Bonder from
http://www.naturalfreedom.info/viewtopi ... =534#p4090 :
surrender to it. dive into it's core and let it wash your entire body. It's just energy, it's not good or bad, the only reason it's trapped is because you are holding it down . So let it do what it was supposed to do.
Experience it.
Feel it.
Bask in it, rather than resisting it.
Let it go.
A GP Walsh video ('Releasing - Common Misconceptions') posted by Flow that helped me keep in mind the correct attitude towards 'letting go':
http://www.naturalfreedom.info/viewtopi ... 314#p21470 .
Note carefully 'Grinus' comment below the video link.
http://www.naturalfreedom.info/viewtopi ... ious#p1743 - very fucking important. Read over and over and over.....
http://www.naturalfreedom.info/viewtopi ... ous#p18349
http://www.naturalfreedom.info/viewtopi ... 709#p22445
http://www.naturalfreedom.info/viewtopi ... 563#p35264
Meraki on 'squeezing the lemon':-
http://www.naturalfreedom.info/viewtopi ... =20#p31329
http://www.naturalfreedom.info/viewtopi ... w=previous
http://www.naturalfreedom.info/viewtopi ... 330#p28380
http://www.naturalfreedom.info/viewtopi ... ous#p27878
Mention should be made of GP Walsh over at the 'Balls Project' (
http://www.ballsproject.com/). I'm not a representative of his site and this isn't a marketing ploy - I just feel that I should mention, in the interest of full disclosure, that his course 'Just Allow It' (which was offered as part of the full subscription -
I don't know if it still is - which I took full advantage of) introduced me to even deeper subtleties, a learning experience which is ongoing for me.
However, I also wish to point out that what I learned on this forum already had me successfully 'letting go' of triggers long before I started doing GP's course. (I believe that my little bit of experience in 'Inner Body Awareness' from Eckhart Tolle's books 'The Power Of Now'
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Power_of_Now and 'A New Earth'
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_New_Earth helped me pick this up a little more quickly, but cannot say that it's a prerequisite.)
And ending it with a beautiful, beautiful quote by Kidd!! from
http://www.naturalfreedom.info/viewtopi ... =924#p8105 :
When you finally stop resisting and accept your faults...they become faults no longer...they transform into unique strengths that can only be properly wielded by YOU.
Now while this isn't a farewell or anything, i'm basically about to start digging EVEN DEEPER into my own shit and getting even friendlier with my demons, and my 'external' life is probably about to get a lot busier too. So I may not be around regularly enough to respond to questions. But that's no problem - anyone interested in truly letting go should be reading the shit, then doing the work, not asking a bunch of questions
. At most they should be reporting back with their experiences, and if i'm not here to comment, there are a LOT of other guys on here who seem to be starting to get this shit down. Not to mention the 2 sages........